"Good writers are of necessity rare."

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"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

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"I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes."

John Legend, American Musician

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"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

Craig Raine, British Poet

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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"I now have to find a reason to write, every single day."

Walter Jon Williams, American Writer

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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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"I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it."

Patti Davis, American Celebrity

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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"So the lover must struggle for words."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

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"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."

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"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

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"The only cure for grief is action."

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"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."

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"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

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"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."

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"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."

"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."

"I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes."

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

"I now have to find a reason to write, every single day."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it."

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"So the lover must struggle for words."

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"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."

"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."

"A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet."

"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."

"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

"The only cure for grief is action."

"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."

"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."